Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts is the Senior Director and Scholar-in-Residence for Laity Lodge.

Mark Roberts is starting a new job with new challenges. In this post he reflects on the challenges of being a pastor.
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In yesterday’s post I explained several things I found difficult about being a parish pastor: the difficulty of certain decisions, the heaviness of people’s burdens, the painfulness of receiving criticism, and the implications of personnel decisions. For me, these were indeed troublesome. But the hardest thing about being a pastor, in my experience, is dealing with people’s expectations… Click here to read the rest.